For those who aren't familiar with these little forays into the
gun rights and political and individual rights world, these generally
start with a piece from Mama Liberty. And here is this week's tidbit.
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This is a continuation of an earlier article of hers.

In part 1, long ago now, I covered the basics
of situational awareness in some specific situations, along with
some simple drills to help people practice this highly important skill.
If you have not seen the first article or don't already practice
awareness, I urge you to click the link above and come back for part 2.

Hopefully, you are not walking or driving while talking or
"texting" on the telephone, listening to music or otherwise zoned
out. Walking or driving while unaware, or minimally aware of your
surroundings, is a prime contributor to becoming a victim, whether of
a criminal attack or just running into something. Even those who
think they can seriously multi task will be at increased risk if they
don't actually see and understand what is happening around them.

Remember that criminals look for and target the unaware, anyone
perceived to be weak, the elderly, anyone they see as probably
helpless. If you look like food.... you may be eaten.

Follow the link. Read the rest. Ya KNOW it'll be good........

We are all between a rock and a hard place right now. Ebola is
coming.... Hell, it's here! Now, what to do about it. Common
sense would tell us to stop people from areas where Ebola is an
epidemic from coming to our shores. With the porous southern border
(hell, KIDS walk over it all the time) what's the point? So what do
we do? Don't ask ME, I don't have a clue what will work. But taking
the temperature of people (1 in 8 Ebola patients never spike a
fever), asking if they have diarrhea (1 in 3 don't get it) or
vomiting (ditto) or feeling fatigued or loss of appetite (1 in 4
don't get fatigue or loss of appetite) so what will work? Got an
idea? Lemme know!

The United States Secret Service, or SS, (isn't THAT an
appropriate moniker?) has faced a lot of crap lately (as it should)
and here is another dose. [Link]
SS agents tried to get police officers to imply they had a warrant in
order to hoodwink a man out of his apartment in Nashville, Tenn. back
in January.

The allegations regarding the January 2013 incident are contained in
a letter that Anderson sent last week to several members of the House
Committee on Oversight. That's the congressional committee that has
spearheaded the on-going investigation into the Secret Service.
Secret Service Director Julia Pierson was recently forced to resign
as a result of that scandal.

"There's already a lot of fodder to attack the Secret Service
with, and this will be more," said Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Tennessee, who
was among the committee members who received the letter.

In the Nashville case, a Secret Service agent made a frantic call
for backup to Nashville police after he and another agent went to the
home of a Nashville man, investigating threatening comments on
Facebook about the President. The man who posted them had refused to
let the agents into his house.

"He shoved the door in our face and went around the corner. Looks
like, we're not sure if he ... possibly he had a gun
in his hands," the agent told a 911 operator.

In a letter that he first sent to Secret Service headquarters, the
Nashville police chief recounted what happened.

So "one of the agents then asked a [police] sergeant to 'wave a
piece of paper' in an apparent effort to dupe the resident into
thinking that they indeed had a warrant."

I laud the Nashville PD for refusing to play along, and to go on
to prohibit the SS from continuing their "investigation".

This is amazing—this idiot tells this girl that she cannot
exercise 1st Amendment rights on a street.
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This video is amazing. She's standing for the
elimination of Free Speech Zones, and she's advocating for her group
"Students for Concealed Carry". I love it that she keeps perfectly
calm and polite. Though she IS wrong on one part—hate speech IS
protected. Not necessarily liked, but it certainly is protected.

Let me preface this by reminding one and all that I am not
supporting religion—I find it all a waste of time to one who
favors the scientific approach. However, one DOES have the right to
both practice your religion free of government interference AND to
speak freely while doing so. As the First Amendment clearly states:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,
or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of
speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to
assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
But apparently, the Democrat city council of Houston doesn't think
this is true. [Link]

Officials with the city of Houston, Texas, who are defending a
controversial ordinance that would allow men to use women's restrooms
now have demanded to see the sermons preached by several area pastors.

A lawsuit challenging Houston's move alleges the city violated its
own charter in its adoption of the Equal Rights Ordinance, which in
May designated homosexuals and transgender persons as a protected
class.

Critics say the measure effectively enables sexual predators who
dress as women to enter female public bathrooms, locker rooms and
shower facilities. A coalition of activists that includes area
pastors filed suit Aug. 6 against the city and lesbian Mayor Annise
Parker after officials announced a voter petition to repeal the
measure didn't have enough signatures to qualify for the election
ballot.

Now, personally, I don't give a damn if bathrooms are bi-sex or
segregated by sex. Just allow each defecator a door to shut for
privacy, and I'm content. I do not believe that the law Houston
passed makes any sense at all SOLELY because it keeps bathrooms
segregated sexually, but allows it to be de-segregated for cross
dressers only. So let me see, if I go in the ladies room in jeans and
a tee shirt, I'm a pervert, but if I put on a dress, it's cool. But
wait, some WOMEN wear jeans and a tee shirt..... I'm confused. But I
have digressed. Pastors have the right to preach the tenets of their
faith. If that faith holds homosexuality to be a sin, they are going
to preach against it. And that is THEIR right, and none of the
Mayor's business. They can call a law sinful (their protected
religious right), they can protest the law and organize an attempt to
repeal it (their protected political AND religious right), and as
long as they physically hurt no one, they have done nothing wrong.
What they do NOT have to do is provide a government proctor copies of
past sermons, nor submit future sermons to proctors for approval,
editing, or cancelling. This is STILL a Constitutional Republic, with
certain enumerated rights guaranteed to one and all. Hey Mayor Parker—you
don't have the right to stop their rights to oppose you. So
shut up, love your wife, and keep fighting the GOOD fight (to protect
and increase gay marriage) and stop fighting the evil fight (to
trample the rights of others to oppose a law they don't agree with).

These people are just too damn evil to allow to exist in
Progressive America....
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For the first link, this evil grandfather

In the anonymous man's own words, "Some wild man comes out of the
weeds towards me at the house. He comes walking over toward me I
could tell he was messed up,"

One thing most gun owners know is that when approached by someone
who appears to be under the influence of drugs it's best to act in
the defensive.

As the surprised trucker reacted to the situation, he had but one
choice, prepare to defend himself or be attacked and possibly killed.

As he relayed to the
local news station, "I don't know really what
to think and I don't know really why he thought he had to talk to me
but he had a pair of gloves of mine on. [So] I pulled my gun out and
put it to his forehead and told him to sit down and called 911 and
I'm thinking I don't want to shoot this guy."

Would you look at that, he didn't want to shoot the guy.

How incredibly reasonable, and so incredibly hard to believe for
our liberal friends who think every gun owner is a rabid trigger
puller.

SURE he didn't—he probably just forgot to load his steel sexual
object. How dare he object to someone helping themselves to his
goods!!! Then, we have this, even MORE evil event, from the second
link above.

When three Spanish-speaking males broke into a Harris County, Texas
home, they probably thought they were going to walk right in and walk
right out.

It is not known whether the men were in Texas illegally or not.
But because of the lax enforcement of border laws in the state of
Texas, the men might have thought burglarizing a home would be
something they could easily get away with.

Little did they know one of them was about to lose his life.

Eight people were inside of the home when the men broke in. The
grandmother, joined by her three granddaughters, were inside of the
kitchen cooking breakfast at 4:30 a.m. when the armed men forced
entry into the home.

The woman's adult son heard the commotion, and when he heard the
grandmother's plea for the men "not to hurt the girls," he sprung
into action. As eight people were in the home at the time, he had to
act quickly.

In true Texas fashion, the man quickly found himself in a standoff
situation with the men. Before the men had a chance to respond, the
son pulled the trigger and dropped one of the thugs like a bad habit.

The official statement given by the Harris County Sheriff's
Department confirmed that the man acted in self-defense.

Of COURSE the Sheriff won't press charges against this
racist—EVERYONE'S RACIST IN TEXAS (except for the criminals, of course). How
dare this man kill an innocent man, who probably didn't realize it
was private property, and was just trying to evict some squatters....

Somehow I forgot to mention it last week, but I wish to extend my
thanks to all of you who responded to my question about ParaOrdnance
double-stacked 1911s. Now my only decision is LDA or original
flavor.....

I knew about this one last week, and it somehow slipped below my
radar. Thanks to Tony (again) for reminding me of it!
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This one pisses me off on SOOO many levels, I hardly know where to
begin. So I'll start with a copy of the linked article.

MOBILE, Alabama (WPMI)—An Alabama mother is furious that her
5-year-old daughter was forced to sign a school contract stating she
wouldn't kill herself or anyone else at school.

School officials told Rebecca, who did not want to give her last
name, they had to send 5-year-old Elizabeth home after an incident in
class.

"They told me she drew something that resembled a gun. According
to them she pointed a crayon at another student and said 'pew pew',"
Rebecca explained.

Rebecca says her daughter was then given a questionnaire to
evaluate her for suicidal thoughts and given a Mobile County Public
School safety contract to sign stating she wouldn't kill herself or
others.

"While I was in the lobby waiting, they had my 5-year-old sign a
contract about suicide and homicide," Rebecca says. "There should be
a different way to handle this situation. If this is protocol it
needs to be looked at again."

Rebecca is pushing to have the incident removed from her child's
record. She says school officials have requested her child see a
psychiatrist. She refused.

We'll start with the mindless asininity of the school "officials".
First, this was only an "incident" because no one at the school has a
shred of gray matter between their ears. She drew something that
resembled a gun, and pretended to shoot at a school mate with a
crayon. THIS is an incident? SHIT! I never knew my entire class was
having incidents on the schoolyard during recess every day! my
notebooks were covered with drawings of sharks and divers killing
each other (I had watched Thunderball, the James Bond movie, with my
father that year) in 6th grade. Next, instead of simply telling the
child "Don't do that anymore, we don't play guns at school.", they
give her a questionnaire to "evaluate her for suicidal thoughts".
Well, after being made to feel like some kind of sick freak (and most
likely not even understanding what she'd done to merit such
humiliation) these mindless imbeciles make a 5 year old child sign a
contract promising not to kill herself or anyone else in school. Oh,
how my fucking brain hurts over this. NOW the school officials have
shown her that they think she's so fucked up she might hurt herself
or others—how's THAT gonna sit in a 5 year old's mind? "My
teacher, Miss Jones, thinks I'll hurt myself, or my best friend
Sally. WHY? What's wrong with me?" Poor Elizabeth is gonna need a
shrink all right, but NOT because of a damn drawing or a crayon-gun,
but because of her teacher and principal. Now, we get to Mommy. I'm
sorry, Rebecca, but are you brain dead as well? All you are worried
about is her school record??? REALLY???? First, you yank that poor
child out of that school so fast the school system has windows
breaking from the vacuum you created. Next, you tell the poor little
girl that the teachers/counselors/principal are evil people who were
being mean to her, and there was nothing she did that would EVER make
Mommy and Daddy think she was dangerous to herself or her friends.
THEN you file a lawsuit against all the participants in this horrid
assault upon your girl's psyche, the school system, and if ANY
medical personnel were brought in to assess her and agreed to the
contract or the questionnaire, them for malpractice. The one thing
you DON'T do is let these ... I can't think of a term strong
enough for them.... people ever get their hands on Elizabeth ever
again. (GRRRR—I need to take a break—I am so pissed off right
now it isn't even remotely funny!)

One has to wonder if this is true.... [Link]
It sounds so far out it just MIGHT be true—who'd believe it without
the back-up?

The Turkish head of the physics department at Bilecik University, who
proposed to revive the Nazi
death
camps, a month later was awarded a fund to sponsor his research
from Turkey's state scientific institute.

Obama's "best bud," his most favorite and most trusted ally. This
is who the current President of the United States stands with.

Curiouser and curiouser.

Isn't it lovely—our Vice Idiot-In-Chief wants another
high-profile person murdered in order to advance his agenda.
[Link]

On October 10 Vice President Joe Biden spoke at a memorial for the
late Jim Brady and said the gun control movement needs another
high-profile victim who is well-spoken in order to succeed.

Brady, who was President Ronald Reagan's Press Secretary, was shot
and wounded during the March 30, 1981 attempt on Reagan's life.

According to The
Washington Times, Biden stressed that the push
for more gun control is not over and said he prays a new voice for
the gun control movement emerges soon:

What we need is another Jim Brady, who has the skill and the
ability to convince those who are afraid, who walks the halls of
Congress, to step up and do what they know is right. One will come
along. It will happen. I pray God it is sooner rather than later.

CNN
reported that Biden also said "seventy-five percent of the
American people" agree with the push for more gun control.

Any god who answers his prayer is not a god to worship. Maybe he
can get the Allah of ISIL/ISIS on board with it. HE can arrange a lot
of victims.

'Tis Time, lads and lasses, to be ending this rant in our usual
way....... but in an unusual way. Our guest Quote of the Week
Provider will be Paul K, another brother I've never met, who sent me
this (long) batch. What the hell—I'm not wasting paper here! Be
advised—he cannot accurately attribute all of them, but he's done
the best he can. He has also provided commentary to explain them, and
I shall leave that in place.

'I had a liberal colleague giving me grief about guns and that
gunowners are crazy, so I just put the question to her—if someone
handed you a loaded gun, what would you do with it? She said "I'd
look for someone to shoot". I told her "That's the difference between
me and you—I'd be looking to be sure it was pointed toward a safe
place. You're the one that needs professional help, not me."'
—Martin Fischer, Conestoga College (on the bearingarms.com blog)

"Whenever we can, we follow the law"—John Koskinen,
IRSCommissioner (quoted in WSJ 9/19/2014)

"Remember, 84% of all statistics are made up on the spot."—Larry the Cable Guy

"Making omelets ain't no fun when the eggs shoot back"—"Illtempered
cur", on Joe Huffman's blog(Joe quoted Chuck Michel
saying something similar: "No one is going duck hunting when 5
percent of the ducks might shoot back." but that's not nearly as
good; for one thing, it introduces hunting into the right to be armed
debate, which has nothing to do with hunting.)

"The Constitution is a restraining order against the federal
government. I'm not going to say a word about the effectiveness
ofrestraining orders against criminals."—Standing Wolf (quoted on
JoeHuffman's blog)

"A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his
country."—Texas Guinan. 19th century American businessman

"Nothing says, "Please don't rape me." like multiple jacketed
hollowpoints."—John Fogh, Insights Self Defense
Instructor(Microsoft Gun Club Email Folder)("Microsoft Gun Club"?
Amazing that such a thing would be permitted to exist. I wonder what
would happen if I tried to start a Dell Gun Club—Dell, in spite of
being a Texas company, has a victim disarmament policy.)

"A man's rights rest in three boxes. The ballot box, jury box
and thecartridge box. Let no man be kept from the ballot box because
of his color. Let no woman be kept from the ballot box because of her
sex."—Frederick Douglass, in a speech delivered on 15 November
1867.

"Simpletons assert that America doesn't need armed citizens
since it has never had a despot or tyrant for a leader. What they
don't realize is that America has never had a despot or tyrant as a
leader because American citizens are armed".—Ira Weitzel (??),
Dachau survivor.(Elie Wiesel?)(This is one I can't confirm, not by
any name. Unfortunate, since it's a good one.)

And that's a wrap for the week.

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